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alexbaja

This new 1:48 Space Probe Voyager is out on the market and it seems it's selling fast. It looks a very promising Voyager from Hasegawa.

CaptSpry

I ordered this yesterday, very much looking forward to receiving it in a few weeks I will post pics when it comes in.

CaptSpry

I found this, pretty much gives you all you need to see... the kit, the instructions, etc.

CaptSpry

Look what came in the mail today! YAY! I shall start my build this weekend, I hope... that is the plan anyway.

apolloprojeckt

What do you find of it? Nice kit, very good plastic parts out of the molds. I start next week with it.

CaptSpry

From first glance everything looks really nice. The parts are crisp and molded nicely. A lot of tiny pieces and its more extensive then I thought, which makes me happy because I don't like super easy models. Not that this will be hard, I am just glad its a lot of detail and will be fun to paint and such. I will post completed pictures when I am done, which will probably be a week or two, depending how much time I have available to actually build.

I took pictures during most of the build, but then forgot to continue to take pictures during the last part of the build.

The kit is really well molded with a lot of detail and a lot of TINY parts. I was surprised as to the amount of small parts that almost got lost because of my clumsy hands. Some of the parts are very fragile and make sure you have a fresh, sharp Xacto knife handy.

Here are some photographs of Hasegawa's Voyager kit with LVM studios photoetch set.

apolloprojeckt

Very nice Steve!!! The upgrade with photo etch is much better.

GACspaceguy

That is amazing. Great work, Steve!

Jay Chladek

I see Hasegawa is getting A LOT of use out of that Earth globe display base they originally tooled up for the Egg Shuttle back in the 1980s. So far I've seen it crop up with this kit AND the shuttle with Hubble Telescope kit that they released a couple years back.

When I do my Voyager, I'll have to see about altering that globe to look like like Jupiter or Saturn (with part of a ring on it), or just build an all new display base with a representation of the grand tour.

alexbaja

Great model Steve, the photo etch made all the difference, keep up the good work.

Norman.King

A beautiful model Steve.

history in miniature

Thanks everyone for the kind words. Jay, that base was not used in the final display as Voyager being a deep space probe I chose a round wood platform painted black to represent space.

the clocks running

Great job Steve!

arjuna

Great work, Steve. I've got the model and the PE set but haven't tackled it yet. May I ask what techniques you used to fold the Low-Field Magnetometer (the long boom arm thingo)? It's so long that finding a sharp edge suitable to use is one of the things that's stopping me from taking on the challenge.

I also notice that you accomplished "the twist" - how much more difficult was that to do? A daunting endeavor, impressively achieved. Congrats.

history in miniature

I used 2 metal rulers to bend the magnetometer boom but it is easier to bend a small section at a time. The p.e. is soft so it is very easy. The difficult part is the 1/3rd twist, with the metal being soft it will deform the boom if not careful, thanks for the thumbs up.